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Boston Jacqueline A 920407 p1
Two Women Dead In Murder-Suicide: Jacqueline Ann Boston; Jacqueline Ann Boston and Loretta Abapo had
maintained a seven-year relationship before it ended Friday in what investigators say was a murder-suicide. At 10 a.m.
Saturday. the two Salida women were found dead in a Pontiac Sunbird parked alongside. Del Puerto Canyon Road, some
15 miles west of 1-5. Sgt. Tom Hardin said that Abapo, 46, shot Boston, 29, multiple times in the upper torso before
turning the gun, a .357Magnum, on herself. Abapo died from a single bullet wound in the head. The two women had
lived together in Virginia and most recently in Salida. Witnesses said that Abapo was distraught because Boston had
recently moved out, Hardin said. Abapo reportedly left her dog with her mother Friday morning and said she was going
to look for her former roommate. The mother later became worried and filed a missing person's report. A witness
reported seeing the car parked at the turnout at 6 Friday evening. A pathologist determined the deaths occurred the day
before the bodies were discovered Hardin said. Motorist and bicyclists unworthy drove past the car Saturday morning
before someone noticed that the woman behind the steering wheel appeared to have a head wound and called authorities
from the nearby ranch. Hardin said Abapo, who is half-Filipino and originally from the Modesto area, moved to Virginia
seven years ago to live with Boston. She returned to Modesto for a time and then traveled to Virginia again to bring back
her friend. "They were living in a homo sexual setting and Loretta was distraught over Jacque recently moving out.",
said Hardin. "We believe that's what happened after talking to everybody." Abapo's parents were making arrangements
with a funeral home in the area, and the coroner's office was notifying boston's relatives in Virginia.